Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences

Forthcoming issues

We have plans to publish the following issues in each of our four cluster areas. Be the first to know when they become available by signing up to email alerts.

Organismal, environmental and evolutionary biology

  • Fifty years since Lewontin’s apportionment of human diversity
  • Speciation and adaptation genes: beyond loci
  • Understanding forest landscape restoration: reinforcing scientific foundations for the UN Decade on Ecosystem Restoration
  • Revisiting the human ‘interaction engine’: comparative approaches to the study of joint action coordination
  • From floral chemistry to landscapes: the natural processes influencing pollinator health
  • Intergroup conflict: origins, dynamics and consequences across taxa
  • Genomic architecture of supergenes: causes and evolutionary consequences
  • Nurturing resilient marine ecosystems
  • Understanding colour vision: molecular, physiological, neuronal and behavioural studies in Arthropods
  • Collective animal behaviour through time
  • Human socio-technological evolution in light of evolutionary transitions
  • Half a century of evolutionary games: a synthesis of theory, application and future directions
  • Cooperation among women: evolutionary and cross-cultural perspectives
  • The mammalian skull: development, structure, and function
  • Predicting evolution
  • The evolutionary ecology of nests: a cross-taxon approach
  • Detecting and attributing the causes of biodiversity change: needs, gaps, and solutions
  • Mixed-species groups and aggregations: shaping ecological and behavioural patterns and processes

 

Neuroscience and cognition

  • Revisiting the human ‘interaction engine’: comparative approaches to the study of joint action coordination
  • Interplays between oxytocin and other neuromodulators in shaping complex social behaviors
  • Cracking the laugh code: laughter through the lens of biology, psychology, and neuroscience
  • Understanding colour vision: molecular, physiological, neuronal and behavioural studies in Arthropods
  • Cognition, communication, and social bonds in primates
  • Face2face: advancing the science of social interaction
  • New approaches to 3D vision
  • Thinking about possibilities: mechanisms, functions, ontogeny and phylogeny
  • Concepts in interaction: social engagement and inner experiences
  • Understanding the endosomal pathway in neurodegeneration

 

Health and disease

  • Genomic population structures of microbial pathogens
  • The cardiomyocyte: new revelations on the interplay between architecture and function in growth, health, and disease
  • Infectious disease and evolution in a changing world
  • Amphibian immunity: stress, disease, and ecoimmunology
  • The heart rhythm: its molecular basis and physiological mechanisms
  • Causes of obesity: theories, conjectures, and evidence
  • Citrullination in cell physiology and disease
  • Strongyloides: omics to worm-free populations

 

Cellular, molecular and developmental biology

  • Genomic population structures of microbial pathogens
  • Extraembryonic tissues
  • Understanding colour vision: molecular, physiological, neuronal and behavioural studies in Arthropods
  • The cardiomyocyte: new revelations on the interplay between architecture and function in growth, health, and disease
  • Reactivity and mechanism in chemical and synthetic biology
  • The mammalian skull: development, structure, and function
  • Citrullination in cell physiology and disease